Thinking about all that’s happened here over the last year, several key moments stand out. We’d love to look back with you on some of the biggest Open blog posts from 2018 and some of the stats behind the articles that were enjoyed the most. From workplace culture to practical email tips, our blog posts covered a lot of topics that affect our work each day.

If you have any questions that we can answer or anything you want to see the on the Open blog in 2019, we’re all ears!

Please enjoy the articles below, and from all of us here at Buffer, we hope you have a very happy New Year! 🎉

One of the biggest steps we made for the future of Buffer this year was spending $3.3 million of our cash reserves to buy out a number of our investors and shareholders. This was a huge, momentous occasion for us and sharing it on the Open blog was a big step. This buyout helped us gain even more control over our future, and we’re excited to use this freedom to deliver value to customers quickly and regularly and to continue building the type of business we love!

Check out all the details about the buyout event in this post by our CEO, Joel:

Our hiring plans picked up pace as the year went on, and we found ourselves super grateful for having put a solid set of hiring practices in place. We have a good foundation for each new role, and we’re lucky to have brought in some amazing folks to join the team this year!

On our diversity dashboard, we share our full diversity numbers publicly. As you can see, we still have work to do as we continue on the path to a diverse and inclusive workplace. As we continue along that journey, though, we’re excited to celebrate some progress. Our team is currently 60 percent men and 38 percent women. We are 76 percent white. We’re eager to continue making progress on this in 2018!

Remote work is something very near and dear to us at Buffer because we are a fully remote company, and we want to do all that we can to spread the word about remote work to others. To that end, we surveyed thousands of workers from around the world to capture a sense of where remote work is in 2018. Check out the full post for all of the numbers and takeaways.

Iran Tours
The infrastructure in Iran Tours smoothly and people are well educated. Of course the people you’ll speak to will be mostly those with a good level of English, but that’s quite a big part of the young educated population. It’s a fact that it takes 10 years to gain a PhD in Iran! So those who study are very serious about it.